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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Urban meteorology"”.
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Lidar remote sensing of aerosol and ozone profiles and application to air quality studies in New York City area
… high levels of anthropogenic emissions, complex urban meteorology, and regional transport. However, vertical distribution observations are still lacking. This thesis utilizes lidar remote sensing techniques to retrieve the vertical distribution of O<sub>3</sub> and aerosols and study air …
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Understanding the relationship between urban areas and the boundary layer using remote sensing methods
… becoming increasingly concentrated in urban areas as the 21st century progresses. Within urban areas, heavy and dense populations result in significantly altered land surface properties and introduce human-induced (also known as anthropogenically-induced) sources of momentum, heat, …
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Heat Waves, Early Birth, and Vulnerable Populations: Epidemiological and Spatial Analyses in the United States
… temperature data from the novel High-resolution Urban Meteorology for Impacts Dataset. Daily mean temperatures were extracted at the zip code tabulation area (ZCTA) level for up to 28 years and linked to birth records from eight US states: California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Nevada, New Jersey, …
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Model development for urban climates
… of environmental models that represent urban land surfaces in weather and climate simulations. Developments focus on efficiently representing physical and behavioural processes at the neighbourhood to city scale. Major contributions and key findings include: 1) Development of a new heat …